Endurance running and the evolution of Homo

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7015, 2004, Pages 345-352

  Bramble, Dennis M ^a   Lieberman, Daniel E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION;

BIPEDAL GAITS; HOMINIDS; HUMAN LINEAGES;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

BIPEDALISM; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL;

ANTHROPOLOGY; BONE STRENGTH; BREATHING; CHIMPANZEE; ENDURANCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HOMINID; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; REVIEW; RUNNING; SPINE STABILIZATION; THERMOREGULATION; WALKING;

ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; RUNNING; SKELETON; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

HOMINIDAE; MAMMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 9244222260     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03052     Document Type: Review

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